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Date:      Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:40:46 -0400
From:      David Banning <david+dated+1119382846.d4a363@skytracker.ca>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getting DNS from DHCP IP address
Message-ID:  <20050616194046.GA77362@skytracker.ca>
In-Reply-To: <42B1D1AA.9080508@mac.com>
References:  <20050616185053.GA57490@skytracker.ca> <42B1D1AA.9080508@mac.com>

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> >Is there a way to get DNS automatically, say from the DHCP connection IP
> >address given to me? or, is there some great free DNS server that will 
> >stay in business for some time that I can plug into my resolv.conf?
> 
> DHCP will normally obtain DNS servers automaticly.  It's likely that you 
> could release and renew your lease ("dhclient -r", maybe?) and cause it to 
> get new DNS info if the old values are no longer working.

Here may be the answer. I think of DHCP of being a server thing only,
to win boxes.  I hadn't considered using dhclient on the freebsd host.
I will look into this. It sounds like the answer.

Thanks -


> "Trawn-nah?"  

spoken like a true native -

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